Word: elizabethans
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...pulled an A in Elizabethan literature, but he wasn't much of a student. One thing he did enjoy was rowing. His crew was good enough to row at Poughkeepsie; but his career as an oarsman ended abruptly when he hurt his spine...
...restricted merchants to eleven compact areas, built them shopping centers (against rent and a percentage of gross receipts) in Spanish, Elizabethan and Colonial styles. Home builders got a choice of one of three areas (large, medium-sized or small houses), where each could build a house according to his own pocket-book-and Nichols' choice of architecture...
...Manhattan, 494 rare items of old English silver from the estate of the late J. P. Morgan were auctioned off at record prices: $31,000 for twelve Elizabethan dessert plates, engraved with the Labors of Hercules...
...York Times Book Critic Charles Poore described station wagons: ". . . half-timbered, like Elizabethan houses (what you might call the Stratford-upon-Detroit-River school of automobile design...
...Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature. It was the Century of the Uncommon Man. The art of the miniaturist, wrote Miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard in 1600, is "a thing apart from all other painting or drawing, and tendeth not to common men's use . . . and is for the service of noble persons, very meet in small volumes in private manner for them to have portraits and pictures of themselves, their peers and any other...